[GRASS-dev] New dev team on github for initial tests

[Moritz Lennert]

On 15/12/18 17:28, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:00 PM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:50 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Migration to *git* is planned in any
>>> case :-) A host platform is not decided yet.
>>
>> We simply need to decide between own hosting (incl. git repo by OSGeo)
>> and effectively commercial providers (github, gitlab, bitbucket, ...).
> 
> ... a friendly ping...
> 
> What are the remaining open problems with
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/tools/svn2git
> 
> ?
> 
> thanks,
> Markus
> 
> 
>> As long as we do not depend on highly specific features of such a
>> platform, migration to another git based platform will remain "easy".
>>
>> We should carefully try to identify potential single points of failure
>> like service unstable, unmaintained in the long run, pay-only traps
>> and the like. But unless we use the standard features of git along
>> with maybe CI we are relatively flexible in choosing the platform.


FYI, there is a new kid on the block: 
https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html.

Moritz